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lei 11' 'O l3- e i l tfdik PO il r oi e lf ottlube • • fi te I " „ A . lot. r3 O a l . lit 1 applii°c atl•te to the present time, in m an y o f i ts pro 01d?9., was idle and nu ga t or y. T o say that t h e bili t ' 44 ' was so, was no a r gumen t f or i ts applica isY °Ow ; an d yet one o f t h e most celebrated mi t ; e°f his time (Fl etc h e r, o f S a l roun ) h a d 'sub equal. a Proposition to the Scottish Parliament of l• ueongruity. He proposed a return to the do slavery of Greece and Rome. It was clear, lis e h -t 'ore, that the most visionary schemes might proltol?o.sed, equally absurd and inconsistent as the tl, p s ltion of theflon.Bart.Witbrespect to , the au ' t ie tiltY quoted-on the subjectof Universal Stith age, l ' e nied that the words " All Freeholders sum- V o ,"d to the Courts, and others, should have il le :!, s, " implied Universal Su ff rage. Ile corn eda", on the construction given to these words, s„-;111' insisting that the authorities quoted could 41; 1 ` t a Construed into a recognition o f th e rif. , ,ht iii People to sit in the House of Commons.— d i ; ° Pinion of Mr. Fox was uniformly inimical to lo p t l a estion of un i versa l su ff rage. Wi th respect thi n p o • lar' election, he w as one o f th ose tv h o did - that it w ere b etter th at a li tt l e e b u lli t i on 4, R i ven to th e p o p u l ar f ee li ng ; —i t was t h e o l d te eatit utional principle, and so much the better to El Wi thered to. He therefore could not agree, that theiecti,°aa, as in W es t m i nster , m i g h t b e carr i e d on to t . i. ` 'a a vestry meeting. Ile, f or one , was f r i en dl y fe t i," e 01 d mode of Election as pursued by our fore tirilr3. Th e return o f t h e N o bl e L ord •(Coch ts;ei t° West m i n s ter , at t h e moment o f hi s last re iti-110 in his o pi n i on did h onour to the electors. Ile 41 ) ' a uderl th e mot i ve,w hi ch was this: t hey ret urned \101)1e Lord because he was oppressed by the 11 1 ,, 1 , r ,"as sentence of th e pill or y,- and therefore ) '1 w ere not disp ose d to a dd to . the injuries so ( . 7 411 Y inflicted on him. The Hon. and Learned ~ia)leman then analyzed the pl an o f t h e Ri g h t 1):,; Raronet, in respect to the age at which the is:P h :e should h ave t h e r i g h t o f vot i ng ; contend- Nit ° ist to leav e out t h ose un d er the age of 21 was %h it unjust ard unwise, for the m os t em i nent tirk, t , t aell and the m os t em i nent warr i ors h ad dis 444tslied themselves in . the Senate and in the Beer before they had attained the age of 21. He ret t to the doctrines promulgated by Mr. ltsi"arn, which were, rather the result of . a ttis h " arY theorist that; a man aqquainted with a person gathering his knowledge Ills,°° o ks, and not from man. He contended t he w,ts necessary to make a stand against s.„ ,netrines of these wild. speculatists, ..who 45:4 4 one day demand one thing, and t he next day to 4 ,,l'er• and if all that was demanded was not Itt tt '`,led to them, this House would have to re• r ti :at they had acted against wise and . Tilth, l4 a• As to his own opinions respecting bs!stC4llentaty Reform, he preferred triennial Par , I tlt s to annual ones. In this he thought• 4s4 t o -e nt pike far enough. The H onoura bl e ]te ed had talked of the Revolution, and re- R th e old joke of the Member for Yorkshire, itt it :tad called th e R evo l u ti on " a bill .o f f are lt s ; n t a dinner." %V as i t not hi ng , h e wou ld 144! hare d r i ven out t h at bi got James 11. and , secured the religion of the State ? These latlenthe consequences of the Revolution ; but, the Reform that was wanted was that "kat t .l "le one which went to benefit the gif t i t he not to sweep away the best principles Pis t e '4unstitution, 'lbis was what our ancestors tt% r e d at the Revolution—wisely, no doubt—and *lOl h a ae, was grateful. They were satis fi ed t 4r th e :Thig done what was requisite for the safety th e ,,' t ate• He concluded with expressing his ot,,: st ietion, that th e R eso l ut i ons o f t h e H on, d'tta Were not calculated to prod uce t h e o bj ect. „tilt Na tiELL rose to deliver his opi n i on ; b ut m eitti °ll se was not inclined to attend to the Hon. h t(117 44 "• He appeared to defend the line pur -11 y the H OO. Baronet. ! t it i t ; C ANNING, in rising to move the O r d er o f sei,-,-aYs e xpressed the high gratification ivbiCh ,11sZttt)erienced at having found su c h an a lly as I • and Learned Gentl eman , w i t h w h om, • tl. he did not agree in many points. He 11 / t Z te d to moderate Reform, because it would lead ,tit'sigtees to th e very o bj ect which Iv 4 es now pro- Ni the H ouse. Every intermediate step oh 4ib Would be used as a stepping-stone to di th at end. V as t h e H ouse to b eg i n b y :tts r kti ng that the present system was faulty, and refo rm ? T hen there were two modes of , 41 4 - 7 tl g it : first, by bringing it back to the who i t la( I b een or i g i na ll y cast; se kaldd re•const ruct i ng i t altogether. lie 44t410d e - ask the 'R e f ormers w hi c h of these two 4 they PrOPOSed ?—lf the first, then let them ti e jrperiod 'Which they ch ose as t h e i r critPletie ' • tf the second, l et t h em exp l a i n t h e i r prin -1144 t t "e Hon. Baronet had mixed a little of A;1 tte as v i ) . tt) Rether, and lie . (Mr. C.) would t a k e +l5 ground; anti ask him at what period bt had b een constructe d in a' better man t t u le tt 7: l at present ?. When it sat annually, if it % e l .'. its functions, as well as th e w h o l e f ace t ki sted tet Y• were very different front what now oi ß eerß s What national interests or individual )ith brought before this H ouse , w n ere .‘ t . the , net only with th e d ee p est attention, but 4 e most enlightened views and abilities . s ti e t t l• Bart. thought that the will of the. people s t . 4 ,ve s „ aufficiently direct on the measures of the 1 1 ,; 11 , at , 4l .i e rit ; but Government was not a matter of h ,lett whole machinery of monarchy had tlitlesturittle.!edir,to prevent that direct influence s ki ,t ue, o , isaronet advocated. lf, to our assembly ts, Int u we bad found a popular I, nder the direct controul of the people ‘ ,l,it v - a t)a o bey its w ill , and l i a b le to b e dismissed etj'seta eu t hority, i t would hare been the duty of ,j 4 e e lators t o di minish that overbearing influ 01'stutld 10 substitute in its place 'a deliberative y,sed , instead of this, it were again pro (e , , pro of tall the duration of Parliament, he l'atend that it would increase instead 11; /11 1d ai el sh the evils of which the Reformers t pr e '!" ; for more frequent elections, with tote:lent limited Constituents, would give aut s i t h0'..0 advantage to those who sat for tb e s p r t liglaS over those who stood for open gt te kis ‘ l 'ar places. He felt much gratitude to ab a k ! aro net for h av i ng at last brought the th 11.etst Parliamentary Ref orm in a tang ibl e reie Pt) "we the House, for it would then be in 1, 4 11 ‘‘,„ l all to j u d ge whether the present sys ere %%, notot Preferable to all the plans p ro p ose d, as nu danger , • anger in this. T he only danger was in tlime vague and general discussions about Reform. It was said that the House did not suf ficiently represent the people. If the House re presented the people as it was understood, and the will of the people was the rule of Govern ment. then King and Lords would be nuisances and excrescences. Let the- House look at the last year, of the reign of Charles the First, and it would find in its own Journals resolutions taken by the long Parliament, and containing a correct exposition of the Honourable Baronet's theory.— They would read that it was resolved, First, That the people, tinder God, were the original of all just Government ; 2dly, That the Commons of England in Parliament assembled, chosen by and representing the people, had the supreme power in these kingdoms; and 3dly, That what had been enacted or declared for law ; by the Commons of England in Parliament assembled, had the force of law, and the people were bound by it, although the consent of the King and the Lords had not been had thereto. These Resolu tions had been followed by a vote, declaring the House of Lords no longer useful, and soon after by another, dethroning the King, and taking away his life. Yet could it be denied that the theory of the Honourable Baronet was contained. in these Resolutions ? Whoever said that this ought to be the principle of our system, spoke of a pure democracy, and not of a monarchy. But the House and the Country would be contented to rest under the shelter of the Constitution as it had been established at the Revolution, for it bad been found sufficient for the prosperity and the glory of the nation. He thought the Hon. Baronet had discussed the question very fairly, and therefore, instead of meeting it with a direct negative, should only move the Order of the Day. Mr. LAMBS opposed the motion principally on the grounds taken by the Hon. and Learned Gen tleman. He deprecated the idea of short Parlia meents, and the language of the Petitioners on the subject of Reform generally. The Hon. 'Wern her was persuaded that the Hon. Baronet, in bringing forward this motion, acted from pure motives, and from a persuasion that its adoption would be for the benefit of the country ; but he was fully convinced that there were others who acted from far different motives ; they looked for ward to the adoption of the Hon. Baronet's pro position as the first step for overturning the Con stitution, on the ruin of which they expected to step to domination : persuaded of this he should give the motion his most determined opposition. Mr. W. SMITH was also against the Motion of the Hon. Baronet ; but, at the same time, he could not agree with his Hon. Friend who spoke last, as to the motives of those who supported the Hon. Baronet's doctrine, and urged him to Wing it forward ; he believed the majority of those per sons, like the Hon. Baronet, were actuated by a sincere conviction that the adoption of it would be most advantageous to the country. Sir F. BURDETT, in reply, stated, that he was much satisfied with the fair and argumentative manner in which thcßight Hon. Gentleman op posite bad treated the question. He hoped all who preferred liberty to misrule would make up their minds to effect such a Reform as should pro duce this desirable object. The House then divided on the previous ques. lion— Ayes Nues 106 0!!! A Message from the Lords announced their Lordships' assent to several Public and Private Bills, and to the Poor Education Bill with some Amendments. The House went into a Committee on the Re gency Bill, after which the Bill was read a third time and passed. MR. COBBETT. Lord COCHRANE presented a Petition from W. Cobbett, praying for Annual Parliaments and Universal Suffrage. The Clerk had proceeded for some time in the reading of this Petition, when _ . Mr.FAiAKERLE T moved that the Douse should be counted ; and there not being 40 Members present, the House was adjourned. Front the LONDON GAZETTE, JUNE 2. The Gazette contains the formal account of the Marriage Ceremony between the Duke end Duchess of Cambridge, on Mondy. evening. It also contains a notice of a Levee at Carlton-house on Friday next. BANKRUPTCY ENLARGED. J. S. Rains,Wapping-wall, merchant, ftom June 2, to June 23. BANKRUPTCIES SUPERSEDED. W. Minot, Lime-street, merchant. L. Rourke, Rosemary-lane, victualler. BANKRUPTS. G. Peacock, Aldersgate-street, baker, to surrender June 6, 16, July 14, at Guildhall. Attorney, Mr. M'Michael, South Sea-Chambers, Threadneedle-street. T. Shillitne, Doncaster, innkeeper, June 19, 20, at the New Angel-inn, Doncaster, July 14, at the Castle, York. At torney, Mr. Blakelock, Serjeant's-inn. W. Nev;ison, North Shields, draper, June 24, 25, July 14, at the Commercial Hotel, North Shields. Attornies, Mesrss: Robinson and Burrows, Austin-friars. J. Mayman, Dewsbury, Yorkshire, innkeeper, June 24, 25, at the Sessions-house, Wakefield, July 14, at the Castle of York. Attornies, Messrs. Wiglesworth and Crosley, Gray's n-square. S. Cook and E. Gording, Little Aiie-street, Goodinan's-fields, upholders, June t, 16, July 14, at Guildhall. Attorney. Mr. Wars and, Chinch-row, Fenchurch-street. DIVIDENDS. June 29, E. Kilshaw, Lancaster, soap-boilet—June 6, J. Walton, Bread-street, warehonsetnan—June 23, T. Good year, Aldersgate-street, straw bat -manufacturer—June 23,J. Morgan, scrivener—Jan::edford-row, Holborn, scrivener—Jan:: 30, 'l'. . Scott, %I are-Park-Mill, Hertfordshire, miller—June 26, J. 11. Halos; Bristol, druggist—June 26, W. Herbert, Sandford, •o.ifordshire; .cow-dealer—June 25, E. Elwell, Weatbromwich, Staffordshire, iron -founder—June 23, It. Ro bertson, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, haberdasher—June 17, J. Chandley, Stockport, grocer—June 24, T. Bywater, Tad caster, Yorkshire, common-brewer—June 25, M. Hinch cliff, Dawgreen, Yorkshire, drysalter—June 26, W. Tucker, Sheffield, silver-plater—June 27, J. Lloyd, Tring, Hert fordshire, surgeon —June 27, W. Spear, Upper Thames street, stationer—July 11, It. Knapton, Nicholas-lane, Lom bard-street, bill-broker—June 23, B. Fincham, sen. W. Fin chat), and B. Fincham, jnn. Epping, bankers --June 23, G. Abrahams, Falmouth, merchant—June 29, R. W. IL Schnieder, White Lion-court, Birchin-lane, merchant— June 27, A. J. Mackenzie and H. Hoper, Cross-street, Fins bury-square, merchants—June 23, J. Noble,' Bueklersbury, merchant—Juno 23, C. Sharpley, Cambridge, perfumer— June 29, W,Bourchier, King-street, Holborn, watchmaker— June 24, J. Boyeeßordesley, near Birmingham, brass founder—June 26, J. Brown, Holywell, Flintshire, druggist —July 6, J. Travers, Newton, and H. Jones, Lower Whitley, Cheshire, millers—June 27, E. Murden, Princes place, Commercial-road, saddler—June 27, G. Bucketidges l'anbourne i Berkshire ; timbir-merchant. SIR J. C. FIIPPISLEY. To Tar. WORSHIPFUL THE MAYOR, ALDF,RNIEN; CAPITA L BURGESSES, AND FRE,I;NI EN OF TIE?, BOROUGH OF SUDBURY. GENTLEMEN,--4t is generally believed that Par liament is on the eve of dissolution. During a period of 29 years, I have been connected by in timate and honour a ble rel a tio n s with your Bo rough, in the high and delegated tro4t of one of its Representatives in Parliament, or a 3 Recorder of the Corporate Body. I cannot flatter myself, however, that, under the disadvantage of absence, and opposed, probably, by the active personal canvass .of many unexceptionable candidates, my return to Parliament could be reassured ; nor, in deed, with the recollection of the circumstances attendant upon the only subject in which any material difference of opinion has existed between a large portion of my constituents and myself, is the spot of Europe from which I date my present Address the best selected to obliterate my recol lection, or to soothe their difference of opinion. - If this difference of opinion respecting the claims of our fellow-subjects of the communion of Rome has been the source of many regrets, I have, nevertheless, the satisfaction to remember, that the explanations of my parliamcntary con duct, as connected with this subject, have been received with candour, anti the result has been highly flattering to my feelings, though unaccom panied with an unanimity of suffrage. Bit I have reached a protracted period of life— beytind that . , indeed, .usually allotted to the days `of than—and now a change of opinion or conduct, on so momentous a question, is little likely to take place,. especially when that opinion has been formed on the closest examination, and sealed with the deepest conviction of my judgment. It is an opinion, Gentlemen, which the lapse of time, and the sanction of muck and patient study, has interwoven in the very thread and body of my political life. As, then, my own sentiments on this head are unalterable, and I cannot hope for the prevalent coincidence of yours—l conceive that I shall best consult both the harmony of my constituents, and the peace of my own mind, by resigning a trust, which I should he unable to acquit with universal satisfaction. For whatever confidence I might feel in the integrity of my in tentions, or whatever conviction that my bumble efforts have been designed, at least, to prothote the best interests of my country—believe me, Gentlemen, any farther collision of opinidti would be, to me, matter of such painful regret, that I want resolution to meet it,—at a time of life little calculated to cope with political irritation. On a former occasion, when hereditary and ha bitual prejudices were not nndesignedly aggravated by misrepresentations of my parliamentary cork duct, and %Then it was difficult, as indeed it is at' the present hour, to say whether ProteStants or Catholics were,the more active in the work of de famation, I thought it incumbent on me to en- deavour to undeceive my constituents, by placing before them some authentic references to my sen timents on this question of high national interest. Though the personal motives which chiefly influ enced me, at that period, no longer exist, I am persuaded that I cannot close ray parliamentary connexion with my constituents more consistently than by resorting to the same declarations, which I shall beg to subjoin to this Address. The ques tion Which called them forth must be of perpetual occurrence, as long as the law remains in its pre sent anomalous state, as affecting the interests and feelings of millions of the people. Although the parliamentary rel a ti ons w hi c h have so long subsisted between us are now nearly drawing to a close—as the depositary of another important trust, in the character of . Recorder of the Corporate Body, my best services will, neverthe less, be devoted to the maintenance of your mu nicipal chartered rights; nor upon any occasion shall I be slow to manifest the deep interest I must ever feel in every question affecting the prosperity —I may be permitted as a Freeman to say—of our ancient Borough. With the sincerest sentiments of respect anti inviolable attachment, I have the honour to be Gentlemen, Your most faithful Friend and obliged . Humble Servant, J. C. Hliii'ISLEY. Rome, April 8, 1818. EXTRACTS. On the 14th of May 180 , 5, on Mr. Fox's Motion for a Corn mittee, &c. Sir J. Hippisley stated, in Parliament, that his Majesty had ratified the Catholic Constitution of Corsica, as he had before ratified that of Canada', and had also given Coin- Missions, under his Koval Signature, to Roman Catholic Cler ' gymen, to act as Chaplains of Catholic Regiments, raised in Great Britain and Ireland. In a few days afterwards Sir H, published a Tract. of " Additional Observations," in the form of a'continuation of his speech, in which he made Use of the • following expressions:—" God forbid that any Member of Parliament, in assenting to the prayer of the Pe tition under - such modifteations as may , be deemed advisable, should be accused of a wish to propose to his Majesty a de parture from the solemn obligation.by which he has bound himself ' t:o - maintain the Protestant Reformed Religion, es tablislied-hy4aw,- and to govern the people according to the Statutes in Parliament agreed on, and the laws and constitu tions of the realm%"—(Corenation Oath.) " Were we to go into a Committee, I should think the oc casion favourable for adducing many heads•of regulation, which I conceive to he intimately connected with the conces sion of.tbe objects of the Petition—so necessary, in my own fainion. that I should fort think myself justified in voting i n vour of that concession, if unaccompanied with provisions of a similar tendency ; and under the influence of the same opi nion, they were submitted, by myself, to his Majesty's Minis ters, while the great measure of the Union was pending." On the esth of May, 1808, on Mt. Grattan's motion for a Committee, Sir J. H. again stated the 7 egulations and restric tions, which, in his opinion, were indispensable, and " which might tend (he added) to quiet the apprehensions of the most scrupulous, whenever the See of Rome should be considered as acting under a hostile influence and become an obj ec t otitis tifable suspicion ;" c o n c l u di ng , that " he voted for going in to a Committee, in which the important subject might be more adequately considered." On the 18th-of May, 1810, on a similar motion of Mr. Grat tan, Sir J. H. proceeded to state the grati's of his insuper able objection to any further concessions, unless they were accompanied with all those regulations and restrictions which he bad before urged, concluding a speech of thud) detail with these words To the Catholic and Protestant Bigot I feel equally indisposed —I would recommend to many Ca tholics to desist from their flippant and ill-directed attacks, and not outstrip their adversaries in the face of calumny; they have to combat the honest prejudices of a great people, the early impressions of youth, and the force of inconsiderate seal, as well as the timidity and defect in information of a pleat portion Of their fellow-subjects. It was a melancholy truth, that the best-infotmed on other subjects, philosophers and statesmen, were often m os t' i gnoran t of this, which vitally affected the interests, the feelings, and the honour, of Mil lions of the people, and the security of the empire itself Our Constitution (says the great Mr. Burke) is not made for great — general—proscriptive exclusions ; sooner. or later it will destroy theta, of they Wilt destroY the.Constitution.' lit tbe thuieo dfineasufes (Sit J, H, observed), be only wish- ed to see those ailoe'ed that coe',l eNsnre the great ~m 1.7 et' rid tits of coos, ifvuefor every desoiptionofourfellow - sobjea s, coati/I'o.on I,y the least exeeptienalde me:tits—to ..recore he ang GE/AP°, THE BULWARKS OF °UK CoNs•rl fU T 1 (Or rots TUE oF ALL." He therefore, voted for going into a Committee, for taking into corisnteration the objects of the Petition. On the teeth of .sure 1811, on a third similar motion. of Mr. the same restrictions. tie urged also the practice of modern poilited out the ioconsistency uf a Grattan, Sir J. 11. repeated the same argumen ts, arid n, v ed tion by the Catholics--aimed some of their Prelates. 1-le eoggested, also, that " a Seiett Committee should be formed fur the consideration of the sub ject, consisting of the La.,' Officers, and' Corsonon Lawyers of eminence, a s well as other Nleatheres, a4:ort of such a subject • arid most competent to the eretinin , that in the House of Lords the Pre l : l(cs ( P •t " e e „ , ought to take a material part 'n such an Investigation. The production 'of documents, and the e,""Th4ti"' in such a Coininittee, might be followed reseintions of fact, di reefing the attent io n o f the Publicto the riViteliat points, arid constituting the most satcstact orp ' ant on which a. Bill might hereafter be framed conameres - tziatx, with the re'. l exigency and justice of the case. ne oeirptitr n eq tralithe.:- tion, or ever', the rejection of the chinos o• t :tl' t would thus derive a sanction nut to be fun d discussions of successive Par littmeroary Debate i• It h,"9" 3 seem (said Sir J. 1-1.) that this expedient was too iratioi! 4 1 ° be questioned by any, but those who were dete, - 0 11 i. , ' , ) 1 .resi.st inquiry in any shape wAatever. .2!co Menv:Tr House was more .-..ealously devoted to the Constitution, iri Church and State, than Aim self: Ile wished, neverttieless, J to. give a free currency to the investigation—and to see great lank of national suraath raised on the extinction of antiquated prejudice. Linioo, be was persuaded, Was with in our reach, though unlforrnity unattainable." On the 24t1 of Apt ii, 1812, on a fourth similar motion of Mr. Grattan, Sir J. H. pressed agoin the adoption and report of a Committee, " for the satistact;on (as he observed; of the public at large, on a question whi c h involved a striking. atiet . material departur e f ront a s y s t em which had been the re- - ceived policy of ag es . Th e mere ii e t o f legislation, however groat the Parliamentary Majorities witit which it might be carried, would still b e c o mp a r a tiv e ly u n s tilfetantialtillhuilett by the according public voice, enfranchis.tet from its preju dices:—the human mind is not so'readily litnualieed as civil franchises are extended by legislation*." On the oed of June, 1812, on the motion of the Right Hon. George Canning, late one of his Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State, Sir J. H. again expressed INuself as strongly in favour of " regulations which. should be iuter posed as barriers against the encroachments of the Sec (f . Rome; and there were not wanting instau.'ees; he obscreee, of the existence of such encroachments. • A Droi/!:nt ture yebuld not dispense with the enactment of suer,' provietuns as might, eventually meet the evil whenever it might preseut itself—however small the probability might be,. of its recur rence. He had ,been uniform, he said, in his deciaratioos from the first moment when he took part in the .diseuss•ion the question, and he would never assent to the I.•terisare, ur accompanied by those securities, Which lad bcea .sanetiome:: by the wisdom and experience ty* ages." . • To these extracts the opinions of some eminent Prelate's of. the Establishment may not be unopportunely•subjoinrd'o The late Bishop (Watson) of Leadoff (Regius Professor of Divinity in the University of Cambridge), lit an adverti!sio ment prefixed to a Charge delivered to his Clergy in 2,80:)," thus expresses himself:—" A numerous and respectab'e part of the Clergy of my Diocese requested me "to publish thew Charge now submitted to the world. 1 excused myself front complying with their request, because I considered the Catho lic Question to have been then settled, at least. fur a time;, and I was unwilling to revive the discussion. Of a subject urn which I had the misfortune to differ in oo;: a i on f rom a taa j or 4 in each House of Parliament. 1 lit - ve still that misfortune; but, looking upon tbe sits!ttlon of the empire to be abOri dantly more hazaHous now than it was three years ago, I have thought it a duty to declare publicly my approbation of a measure, calculated, I sincerely believe, above all other measures, to support the independence of the country—to sc• Ezire the stability of the Throne—to promote peace among* fellow subjects, and charity among fellow Christians—and its no probable degree dangerous to the Constitution, either in ChtliCh Or State." he late Bishop (Law) of Elphin, in one of his . ptrblirie- Cons, obieri•es, " By far the greatest part of the population. o f my Diot e S e are R oman C at h o li cs. I know I cannot fifaln'e them good Protestants; I therefore wish to make good Ca.. tfoolics of them—and with this intention I put into their hands the works of Gather, an eminent Catholic Divine."-- n tti some olic points brethren m w s e e r l e f o f ha n d o b a u c t cu o u i t l i e t The same Prelate, in a d e b a te on th e C at h o li c B ill in 1793 ; hi deqated, that, in his opinion, " Speculati ve diff erences o te H lig is iu l i t l_ oru tb ar e i ligion of Christians;—and that without justice to the Ca, tholic, there could be no security for the Protestant EstaL blishment." The rations declarations in Parlianient trade on this sub ject, in concurrence with these opinions, by the present. B ishop (Bathurst) of Norwich, were preceded by a Charge to his Clergy in 1808, when, speaking of the Roman Catholic subjects of his Majesty, be says—" That it would,be unfair to involve in the guilt of his misguided zealots of former days, a body of men of a far different description, to wham it is our duty, and should be our inclination, to shew every mark of benevolence, both as brethren and as deservivg fel- . low subjects." And in a speech of the late BiShdp (Horsley) of St. AsaPh, in 180:: , , his Lordship says—" 100 not hold that there is any thing in the Roman Catholic religion at variance e nth the principles of loyalty. Ido not believe that any Roman Ca tholic of the present day thinks himself at liberty not to keep faith with fieretics—not bound by his oath to a Protestant Government; or that the Pope can release bins from the obligation of his oath of alleglarieii to his Sovereign: I: have. a perfect knowledge of the questiOns proposed, and' the an swers returned by the foreign Universities, in which those abominable principles (the dispensing and deposing power) were most completely and unanimously reprobated by those learned bodies, and I am persuaded the Roman Catholics are sincere in their disavowal and abjuration of those pernicious maxims ; and I told that the Roman Catho lics of this country are dutiful and loyal subjects of his Ma j Such are the extraC!'s and refeeences which were Cleduiated on the occasion alluded to, in -the preceding address.. Itx each subsequent Session, Sir J. llippisley maintained' the same ground, and re-urged the appointment of a Select com mittee of Inquiry. That measure was at length acceded to, and on the 24th of June, 1816, the Report of the Committee was delivered to the Howe. It has since been printed by' Corder of both llouses of Parliament, The chief diounients annexed to the Report, together with the supplementary papers, communicated by command of the Prince Regent; on the 28th of March, 1817, stand upon the authority of the Governments of the most considerable States of Europe; of the Roman Catholic, the Greek, the Lutheran, and the Reforme " .d Churches—and may be considered v a l ua bl e , especially from throwing light," to use the words of th e Report, " upon subjects of long and contin ua l con t roversy, regarding those points in which a regulated intercourse with a foreign spiritual jurisdiction has been held to be necessary' or allowable, consistently Oh the rights of conscience, tb,-/. integrity of civil obligations, and the security of the State.' ' '-' ----... * In a note annexed to the substanCe of Sir J. speech on the motion of Mr. Grattan, on the 24th of April., the facts stated were referred to, with the following Observation : " It such be the opinions of eminent Ecclesiastics of the See of Rome, jealous of the independence of their Church, the Members of the If.stablisbjuvo )vholly shut against the ossibility of enctoachment ?—.l sail e v es , who seek the protection of their Catholic fellow-ksobitects, equally with their own, he calthuniated, because they are out disposed to surrender their reason to the voice of clamour ? If the Representative Body of. the Nation—the Guardians of its interests and security—should be so little alive to their duties, as to turn aside from wholesome legislation, in-yield ing to those clamours, very little permanent good could be au gured from concessions exacted by such ill-grbunded appre. hensions. [CIRCULAR.] To the CUSTOMERS o f RI CHARD TURNER.. I do hereby beg t o gi ve not i ce, you aria pay not to pay any further Sum tin my account, tr . , my b ite it : Traveller, GE ORGE A LLEN, 1 havir,g found un necessary he should quit my sekvieil. prtifound respect, For past and f uture I am, with Fav•Jurs, BlaCking,lifanufactor yowrg, v er y !n th ?. yi RICHARD TU R k Ert. 114, Lonaoh R oa d, Squthivark; May 30, 1813. Letvi.—Notbing particular yesterday in any o f .be Courts..